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Table E (iv).-DISTRIBUTION of all N.C.O.s and men for Telephones on Mobilization, including clerks and messengers, after all Telephones have been connected up.
Office.
R.E.
R.E. Staff at Head-quarters
G.O.C.
C.S.O.
Head-quarters Telephone Exchange
Belchers
Lyemun
North Point
Kowloon Dock
Whitfield Barracks, Kowloon
Kowloon West
Stonecutters West
Wong-nei-Cheong Gap
Mount Gough
Sanitarium
Mountain Lodge
Total
2
1
1
2
1
1
2
1
1
2
·
1
5
2
14
2
10
Note. The R.A. telephones are manned under arrangements made by O.C. R.A.
Remarks.
No special opera-
tors detailed.
(F.)-Action by Principal Medical Officer.
The Principal Medical Officer will at once arrange for the establishment of a dressing station with the head-quarters of each of the six Sections, and for the distribution to Sections of the officers and men of the Army Medical Staff Corps according to Tables B, B (v), and B (vi) of Chapter II, and Table F (i) below, and of the medical and surgical equipment in the annexed Table F. He will then proceed to organize base hospitals and to arrange for the assistance of the civil practitioners whose names are already noted.
The existing military hospitals would be supplemented by base hospitals in Victoria and Kowloon, the former in the three lower blocks of Victoria Barracks, and the latter in the southern blocks of the Whitfield Barracks, vacated by the companies on Sectional duty. Victoria Barracks will be equipped with 15 beds for officers, 92 for European soldiers, and 25 for Asiatic soldiers; total, 132 beds. The Kowloon Base Hospital will be equipped with 125 beds exclusively for Asiatics. The Govern- ment Civil Hospital will be utilized for sick and wounded of the Chinese Coolie Corps.
The medical care of the sick will be carried on as at present by the Army Medical Staff, who will proceed to their dressing stations, in only one instance more than half- an-hour from the central hospital, when their Sections are attacked. When this takes place the civil medical practitioners whose names are noted will assist in looking after the sick and wounded in the base hospitals. Although the names of six medical practitioners are noted, it is not anticipated that anything like this number would be required, in fact the aid of civil practitioners will only be resorted to when an attack is imminent or is being made. The Tables show the state of affairs if the station and base hospitals are filled to their full extent. As there will be at least thirty days of expectancy to one of attack it would be absurd to permanently engage civil practitioners for what might prove hypothetical services.
A sufficient stock of medicines, medical appliances, &c., exists in the command for the sick and wounded estimated for.
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